Riddle me this...

[thehoodedsmack]

So I recently got a 360 for Christmas. This is the first console I've ever owned, and so, the following question may be a little silly to those with more experience with the system.

Q: Is there any way to split multiplayer screens onto seperate televisions without using a system link?

A: Please Respond

Thanks in advance!

~Smack

[ExAm]

Answer: Google

[thehoodedsmack]

Answer: Google

It's insulting to think that people figure I would take the time to create a thread if I hadn't already utilized the most obvious answer. Google has told me nothing.

[ExAm]

It's insulting to think that people figure I would take the time to create a thread if I hadn't already utilized the most obvious answer. Google has told me nothing. I can't count the number of times that I've seen others do it. Without any previous experience of you in this situation, I don't think I could have known.

In that case, I don't really have an answer for you, other than that I think that I maybe possibly have heard of it at one point or another in time. :v

[legionaire45]

The only way to do that is to buy another console. Then hook it up to another TV with another copy of the game.

[ExAm]

Or (As I just found out) buy a DLP TV and special polarized glasses. Then figure out how to set it up.

[BobtheGreatII]

Google: "360 split multilayer on 2 tvs"


No. The only way to use more than one TV for multiplayer games (where each player has his own screen) is to have more than one Xbox (one TV per Xbox). Obviously, the game must be System Link or Xbox Live compatible.

Could be wrong, but that's what I got.

[Chronos]

Only if the software allows you to assign each screen to another television set and even if it did, you'd have to split the signal.

[Mr Buckshot]

No, unfortunately not. The Xbox 360 is programmed to work only with a certain range of resolutions, and it will output all the display information within such resolutions. So if you plug twin LCD TVs, both at 1280x720 res, into your 360, the 360 will only recognize 1280x720 and will output all the video within those parameters.

Actually, if you had four TVs (two on top, two on the bottom to maintain the aspect ratio) and configured them all to work as a single giant monitor, the 360 might be able to output to all 4 at once. However, it's thinking that it is outputting to one TV and not four, which is how it is able to put one screen per TV during four-player games. That's just a theory. But if you have, say, a two player game and you want to put two TVs side by side, then I guarantee it won't work.

This goes for all consoles by the way.

[odseraphim]

Yeah, if you were to think of the 360 as a computer, and realize that it essentially would have to render out for two separate monitors, it would eat up all the processing power. It would have to render everything in Halo 3/Gears of War/COD4's view, twice (or more, depending on what your needs were).

Last time I checked, those games are pretty beefy and they had to cut a lot of corners just to get the game to appear well on ONE screen, let alone multiple.

In the time that it would have taken you to think about that, you could have saved us all from typing multiple posts, and you making a generally pointless thread.

[ExAm]

Ever notice how everything is cut down in therms of appearance when you're in split screen? It'd look like that, just full screen.